DBMS > Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Linter vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Geode vs. Linter vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

RDBMS for high security requirements

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	13.64
Rank	#39	Overall
	#6	Document stores

Score	1.86
Rank	#134	Overall
	#24	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

firebase.google.com/products/realtime-database

geode.apache.org

linter.ru

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

firebase.google.com/docs/database

geode.apache.org/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Google

acquired by Google 2014

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

relex.ru

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

2012

2002

1990

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language (OQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Java
JavaScript
Objective-C

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

limited functionality with using 'rules'

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

if the client is offline
Immediate Consistency

if the client is online

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, based on authentication and database rules

Access rights per client and object definable

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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